Two new seed grant projects commencing

IPUR is awarding two new seed grant projects to support the institute’s ongoing efforts to achieve translational impact. The award encourages high-quality competition for future grant calls as well as providing input to refine the scope of future grant calls.  The first project led by Asst Prof Seow Wei Jie from the Saw Swee Hock […]

Laying The Foundation For A Resilient Asia

As threats like COVID-19 and climate change sweep our communities, effective communication could spell the difference between mass destruction and staying out of harm’s way. However, in an increasingly crowded media space, useful risk information could easily be buried amid the static and noise. Accordingly, risk communicators are finding it harder to engage users who […]

Understanding Risk Asia 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9o9u_PCmEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyC_AOsXBDwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDKt1ad-lzYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2FEz_dPyoc After many months of preparation, meetings and planning, Understanding Risk (UR) Asia 2021 finally took place as a hybrid event from 2-3 December at Orchard Hotel. Close to 100 people joined the event in-person with about 1,000 participating online. As was the key objective for UR Asia, many of the riveting and insightful discussions […]